"Garner is known for her frankness, her distinctive blend of tender affection and brutal truth-telling. "Acutely pleasurable, acutely painful" (Fay Weldon) "Garner, in everything she writes, is an indelible stylist, a shaper of events, a distiller of meaning" ( ABR) "Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia." ( The Bulletin) "Garner is a storyteller, an observer.Her style is beautifully simple.People who are on a fixed diet of fiction or who graze on airport shelves could cleanse their palates with Garner as they might once have done with Jane Austen." ( Sydney Morning Herald)
How is it that she can enter this heart-breaking territory - the dying friend who comes to stay - and make it not only bearable, but glorious, and funny? There is no answer except: Helen Garner is a great writer The Spare Room is a great book.
" The Spare Room is a perfect novel, imbued with all Garner's usual clear-eyed grace but with some other magnificent dimension that hides between the lines of her simple conversational voice.
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